Smallest Moodle server – with Raspberry Pi #Moodle #MooPi

There is a misconception among people that Moodle, the most popular LMS, can be used on all big capacity servers only but have you ever thought of testing Moodle on the smallest devices available in the market nowadays like Raspberry Pi and Orange Pi.

Recently, I stumbled upon a forum thread which took me to another interesting project developed by Paul Verrall which I thought to share with my readers. The project named MooPi shows that it is possible to run Moodle on Raspberry Pi 2 model B with noexternal resources. The project MooPi also proves what can be made possible by carefully looking at the software stack for the resources and the configuration to extract the maximum juice out of your resources.

The MooPi project website also contains the information about the configuration, the Software stack used for MooPi and other details. If you are interested in more information about MooPi, please check out the Official MooPi project website here.

Another Moodle community member George Varghese shared some snapshots of his Moodle setup with Orange Pi showing Moodle 3.1 and Debian Jessie 8.5 working without any fuss.

Have you ever thought of running Moodle on such tiny devices? Share your experience with us in the comments below.

Jaswinder Singh

Jaswinder Singh, passionate about using Moodle in improving the Indian Education System and reaching the students in far flung areas where still education seems to be a impossible prospect of life. He is the author of the popular Moodle Book "How to use Moodle 2.7". In October 2016, Jaswinder was elected as the Moodle User's Association Committee member - the first to make it from India.